“Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.”

— Patrick Rothfuss , book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 44, “The Burning Glass” (p. 328)

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